Reframing & Redirecting Workshop

 

Reframing & Redirecting Behavior 

Live Workshop Invite

Is Your Dog’s Behavior Confusing You? Let’s Turn Struggles Into Strengths!

Have you ever caught yourself thinking, “Why does my dog do that?!” 

Barking, lunging, jumping, or freezing; it can feel like our dogs are acting out on purpose. But here’s the truth: behavior is never random. It’s communication. And when we understand what our dogs are really telling us, we can help them feel safe, calm, and confident and enjoy life together.

That’s why I’m excited to invite you to our live workshop: Reframing & Redirecting Behavior, part of our February Focus on Behaviors theme in the Turning Struggles Into Strengths Workshop Series.

Put this workshop on your calendar!

February 3rd

11AM Central Time

Reserve you FREE Space Today!

In our live workshop, we’ll teach you how to reframe your dog’s behavior, understand their emotions, and redirect them in a supportive way.

Behavior is communication. Barking, lunging, or “ignoring” you doesn’t mean your dog is bad, it means they’re trying to tell you something.

We can look at that behavior as the problem that needs correcting, or we can look at that behavior as communication that tells us to support our dog, redirecting them to more of the behaviors we love.

In this workshop we will cover:

• Why reframing the behavior matters.

• Where reinforcement often fails.

• How redirecting in the right way is most effective.

Let’s stop feeling frustrated and start feeling connected!

This is your chance to step off the “punishment treadmill” and start seeing behavior as information instead of a problem. By the end, you’ll walk away with a clear plan for reframing one challenge—and the tools to start helping your dog feel safe and understood.

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Why Reframing Behavior Matters (and How It Changes Everything)

When a dog’s behavior feels challenging, it’s easy to label it as the problem.

• The barking is the problem. 
• The lunging is the problem. T
• he jumping, pulling, ignoring cues… that’s the problem.

When Behavior Becomes “The Problem”
When our focus is on stopping behavior, we often miss what’s actually creating it.

Behavior Is a Symptom, Not the Root Cause.

Lunging might be a request for distance.

Freezing might be confusion or overwhelm.

“Crazy” adolescent behavior might be a nervous system that hasn’t learned regulation yet.

How Reframing Changes the Conversation

It softens frustration and opens the door to understanding.
It slows us down just enough to see the why behind the behavior. As dog owners, we move from fixing the behavior to understanding the behavior which changes the outcome to one of support.

If overwhelm is the cause, we can reduce pressure and expectations.

If lack of skills is the issue, we can teach—rather than correct.

Reframing Leads to a Plan (Not Just Hope)! With a plan w focus on teaching, “Here’s how to handle this situation.” We can turn struggles into strengths when we realize our dog is communicating with us and we begin to communicate back in a way they can understand. By addressing the root cause of the behavior, we can begin to change the emotions behind the behavior and create lasting change; not just a quick fix.

When behavior is framed as a problem, something subtle, but powerful, happens next. We start looking for a way to fix it. Fast.

Viewing behavior as a problem often brings along some unhelpful companions:

• Blame: “My dog knows better.” 
• Resentment: “Why does this keep happening?” 
• Urgency: “I need this to stop now.”

This mindset makes total sense. Living with challenging behavior is exhausting, embarrassing, and emotionally draining. Of course we want it to stop. But here’s the catch, that’s when progress stalls.

Behavior doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a response to emotion, environment, and past experience. Barking might be rooted in fear or uncertainty but when we treat behavior as the problem, we’re addressing the symptom,not the cause. And symptoms have a frustrating habit of coming back… sometimes louder than before.

Reframing behavior means shifting from:

“How do I make this stop?”

to:

“What is my dog experiencing right now?”

This shift removes blame and replaces it with curiosity. Instead of reacting to what we see on the outside, we start considering what’s happening on the inside and that’s where real change begins! When behavior is no longer the enemy, we stop fighting our dog and start supporting them.

Reframing leads us to ask better questions:

• Is this environment too much right now? 
• Does my dog have the skills they need here?
• Are they feeling safe, confused, excited, or overwhelmed?

These questions don’t excuse behavior, but they explain it and gives us direction. Once we understand the root cause of a behavior, we can actually influence the outcome. 

If fear is driving the behavior, we can increase distance and predictability. Instead of repeatedly reacting to the same struggle, we begin changing the conditions that create it.

That’s when behavior starts to shift; naturally and sustainably.

One of the most powerful outcomes of reframing is clarity. When we understand why a behavior is happening, we can create a plan that supports the dog emotionally, teaches them what to do instead, and builds skills they can use in real-life situations. This is where redirection shines; not as distraction, but as education.

We’re no longer saying, “Don’t do that.”

And that’s how dogs learn.

Challenging behavior doesn’t mean you’re failing. When we stop seeing behavior as a problem to fix and start seeing it as information to understand, everything changes:

• The relationship softens 
• The plan becomes clearer 
• Progress feels possible again

Reframing behavior isn’t about lowering standards or ignoring challenges. Ignoring behavior never fixes the problem, it only makes things worse. But when we change the cause, the outcome takes care of itself.

Learn how to start reframing your dog's behavior and how to use redirection that actually works by joining us on February 6th for the Reframing & Redirecting Workshop!

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